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Cold day 12c to max 20c overcast all morning became sunny about 2pm. Walked to the Municipal Wharf at Cowell Beach. Lots of fishermen but no seals today. Restaurant s right to the end of the jetty and some very good tourist shops. $1 per twenty mins parking on jetty. Walked to downtown area and shopped a while for Linnie to buy new jumper and a top …

Crazy, I know. I'm leaving the most beautiful place with the best weather and leaving a great job/career, to become unemployed and homeless and setting off into the deserts of the southwest to begin my journey back to …

"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another." -from Our National Parks by John Muir

Had a fun day yesterday, first stopping to tour the Mission San Juan Bautista, and then heading to Santa Cruz for lunch, beach time, and then dinner, too, before we went grocery shopping on our way home. Whew! Packed a lot in, and no wonder we were so tired when we got home last night! …

We watched Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo not long before we left for this trip, so Stephen planned a visit to see the Mission San Juan Bautista, where some of the action in the film took place. A beautiful and peaceful place.

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... a few days but there was much to see & do. We spent an afternoon exploring the Mission and surrounding state park at SanJuanBautista. Our second day here was spent exploring Moss Landing. The day time weather was absolutely ...

SanJuanBautista is a tiny town just off the 101 heading North.
Walking the streets was just amazing - the town looked like it hadn't changed in the last 100 years. It's an old Mexican town created (setup?) by one of the largest missionaries in ...

... of that. We are on our way to visit Jil's brother and Mom. Our first stop is approximately 300 miles from home. SanJuanBautista is a very small town located just north of Salinas that sports a 3 block long business district. It is home to ...

... (pun intended) are tough. Afternoon found us marking off another bucket list item for Bonna---seeing the Mission at SanJuanBautista (think that means John the Baptist-even though I think the 'ole boy was Catholic). She also found a ...